Re: Commecial vs fairness (was: spam support)

To: Gert-Jan <
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From: Mally Mclane <
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Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2002 22:13:43 +0000 (GMT)

Cc: Denesh Bhabuta <
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Gert,
[these are my views, not ripes]
Whilst I sympathise with you,
> Can RIPE not issue a maintain lower for the ISP who is not enforcing his
> her AUP and or not fighting the abuse coming from his network. Ans i mean
> abuse in the broader sense, so also taking care of custommers who
> delibirately try to hack into other persons systems.
RIPE employs close to 90 people, a large proportion of these are
hostmasters and they are already working very hard.
For RIPE to police ISPs on *their own* AUP, and investigate if they are
actually breaking *their own* AUP would be a huge task, and one I think
would be beyond the capabilities, man power wise, of RIPE at the moment.
It also opens up all manner of legal/operational issues, which I am sure
RIPE would rather not get involved in.
We already do our bit for anti-spam, we get maybe 10-20 emails a day
accusing us of this/that, and 100% if these are mis directed, we reply to
each and every one with the correct whois output, telling them who to
contact.
Above all, I don't think this fits easily into the remit the RIPE NCC has.
rgds,
m

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